A partnership at the top, at the intersection of traditional and decentralized finance: Chainlink has teamed up with payment giant Mastercard to enable 3 billion users worldwide to purchase crypto on-chain. This is a major step forward, drawing on the expertise of many specialized players.
Chainlink and Mastercard team up to introduce on-chain crypto payments
Global payments giant Mastercard announced on Tuesday, June 24, a strategic partnership with the Chainlink oracle network to enable cardholders to purchase cryptocurrencies directly on-chain via applications connected to decentralized protocols.
This fiat-to-crypto gateway, designed around Chainlink standards, leverages zerohash’s regulated infrastructure and Shift4’s payment interface. The initiative is designed to provide a seamless and intuitive shopping experience while integrating natively with DeFi environments.
We’re excited to announce that Chainlink and @Mastercard have partnered to enable billions of cardholders to purchase crypto directly onchain.https://t.co/1pKz03jQ7t
Chainlink verifies and synchronizes key… pic.twitter.com/5jfLAAYn4D
— Chainlink (@chainlink) June 24, 2025
In concrete terms, this partnership will enable more than 3 billion Mastercard cardholders worldwide to access protocols such as Uniswap from compatible applications to convert their fiat currencies into digital assets. The fully secure process is based on a distributed technical architecture: zerohash provides asset conversion and regulated custody, Shift4 facilitates card payments, and XSwap aggregates liquidity across DEXs.
“This is precisely the type of integration between traditional finance and decentralized finance that Chainlink has been aiming to enable from the outset,” explains Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink. “With this bridge between Mastercard’s infrastructure and on-chain DEXs, end users no longer have to choose between security, simplicity, and sovereignty.”
On the Mastercard side, the enthusiasm is just as tangible: “Users want to be able to interact easily with the digital asset ecosystem. It’s our role to support this transition by ensuring trust and simplicity,” emphasizes Raj Dhamodharan, executive vice president of Blockchain & Digital Assets.
The solution is already operational via the Swapper Finance platform, a technological showcase for this new generation of interconnection between traditional currencies and the decentralized ecosystem.
This is further proof, if any were needed, that the giants of finance are more immersed than ever in the world of crypto.
